Leading two politically focused nonprofits has generated big money
for former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota — with paydays
better than when he served in Congress’ upper chamber.

Coleman collected more than $570,000 during a nearly three-year
tenure at the helm of the American Action Network and the American
Action Forum, for an average of about $190,000 annually, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of federal filings.

That includes a combined salary of more than $116,000 in 2011, according to the groups' most recent annual reports — though Coleman was only a paid, full-time employee of the organizations for a portion of that year.

According to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service,
Coleman worked a combined 40 hours a week for the two conservative
nonprofits during 2009 and 2010 — their first two years of existence,
when he served as both groups’ chief executive officer.